Firearm.



C. A. NELSON.

FIREARM.

APPLICATION.F|LED JUNE 9. I917- Patented Nov. 20, 1917.

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. /NVNTOR' Charla s Md 4 ITORNEY breech longitudinally of the barrel,and it STATES PATENT uro CHARLES A. NELSON, OF U'IICA, NEW YORK,ASSIGNOR TOSAVAGE ARMS CORPORATION,

A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

FIREARM.

Toall whom it may concern: Be it known that 1, CHARLES A. NELSON,

. a citizen of the United States, residing at a which the following is aspecification.

This invention relates to magazine firearms of the class in which thebreech-bolt is movable for opening and closing the has for its object toprovide means for removably securing in place the cartridge box orequivalent which shall be simple and durable in construction and adaptedreliably to hold such box or equivalent in place and to permit theintroduction or removal thereof with facility. A further object is toprovide a novel means to adapt the arm for the feeding of the cartridgesone by one by hand. i In the accompanying drawing,

- Figure 1 is a fragmentary side elevation of a magazine firearm havingthe part thereof with which my invention is immediately concerned insection, a cartridge box being shown in the magazine cavity or opening;

Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the adapter in said opening: and,

Figs. 3 and 4 are a side and a rear elevation of the adapter.

a is the barrel having a rearward extension 11 forming the breech-casmg,which contains the longitudinally movable breechbolt. the rearward part0 of which is capable of rotation in the breech-casing to lock andunlock the breech-bolt (cl being the usual handle for rotatably shiftingit) and the forward part c" of which is held against turning by adepending rib c' which engages in a suitable groove in the breechcasing.The breech-casing has a lateral cartridge-shell delivery opening 6.

f is the stock to which the barrel is secured by the long screw 9 which,with screws h, also secures to the stock the trigger guard 2'.

j, k and 1 represent the trigger, striker and firing pin, respectively,of the firing mechanism.

The shell-delivery opening 6 is immediately back of the barrel-breechand in the same transverse section of the gun the breech-casing b has anunderneath opening an and the stock and trigger guard an open-Specification of Letters Patent. i Patented Nov, 20, 1917; Applicationfiled .Tune 19, 1917. Serial No. 175,562. i

ing n. These openings on and n form a cavity to receive the cartridgebox 0, adapt ed to be entered into and removed from saidr cavityvertically.

The cartridge box 0 contains a springpressed platform 72 for elevatingthe cartridges and on its rearward side has a vertical rib q beveled atits upper end and forming at its lower end a shoulder r. A metal piecewhich in the construction shown is the trigger guard'at 5 forms ashoulder at the lower rear sideof opening a. When the box is enteredinto thecavity, it is pressed back by a spring t which, when the box isfinally pushed home,'causes the latter to spring rearwardly so that therib g snaps into abutting relation to the shoulder s. The box may beremoved by employing its handle it to force it forward, till its rib atr clears shoulder s, and then downward. Spring t is a plate springhaving one end clamped between the barrel and stock and held in place byscrew 7, its other end being bent downwardly and curved. According to awell known construction, the breech-bolt is adapted to be blockedagainst forward movement when it is retracted upon the firing of thelast cartridge by engagement of the rib 0 on its forward member 0 withthe magazine platform.

To adapt the gun for the firing of cartridges one by one by hand Iprovide the block '0 conforming generally to the outward shape of thebox except that its top face affords a rigid cartridge seat w having alongitudinal depress on or groove :20 to accommodate the rib 0" of thebreechbolt. When this adapter has been fitted to the gun in the samemanner as the magazine box and in place thereof the cartridges may befed by hand into the gun through the shell-delivery opening 6. the topor seat 10 supporting the cartridge until the breechbolt is allowed toadvance it into the barrelbreech.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new and desireto secure by Letters Patent is z 1. In combination, with the fixedbreechincluding part of a gun, and the breeching and firing mechanism,said part having a, magazine-receiving openingand including separatemembers rigidly secured together,

sureon the magazine.

Vand fii'ing mechanisms; s'a'idparts having a endibent efi' and;arranged insaijcl opening magazine. I

includingpart of agun having a magazine nallyi movable breeching"structure, and firs the firing of cartridges one "by one by hand aInagazme in said opening, and a plate-- sprtngclamped between the barrelq nd stock endihavm enefefld exerting'clampmg' presimgazine--1"ecei-ving opening, ,a removable fc'ertr ldge magazlne 111 saidopenlng, ayplate splzing secured tO' SZLId part and havmg. One

"exerting, damping pressure on: 7 the 4.; The combination, withthe xedbfieech- 'ing means; ofmeans to adapt the gun for consisting of e" figidcartridge-supporting nlember removably arranged in said opening andhaying 2i cartridge-supporting seat 'td-forI-nthe' rigid bottom of thespace'immediatlyback of the breech in the rearw'ar 1 position of the breeching structure.

'5, The combination, Withthe fixed breech including part of a gun having:1 magazine- V c V opening entering the same from belowimmei0 1: 7.3;Incombination, wlththe fixed-breech -nclu-di ng. partof. aguIn,-I andthe breeeh-ing ber ren'rojvabl-y arrange d in, said: opening andsisting'of 21- l igict cartridge suppor'ting memj havin' acartrid 'e-s-u'oi'tin seat toformw' the rigidxbottorhiof the-space immediatelyvbacke1"thebreech in the rearward posit-ion of the bree'ching structure,said part also having a vcartridge introducing and shell ejctlllg openlng entenng the same 'lmmedlately back'of the breech; n V ln testimonywhereof I my signature.

" CHARLESA. NELSON.

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